Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Have Cornered Culture and What It Means For All Of Us Audiobook (Free)

A Financial Occasions ‘Best Thing I Read This Year’ 2017

LONGLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD

Google. Amazon. Facebook. Today’s world is usually defined by vast digital monopolies turning ever-larger income. Those of us who consume this content that feeds them are farmed for the reasons of being offered ever more items and advertising. Those that create this content – the performers, writers and musicians – have found they can no more survive within this unforgiving economic about Move Fast and Break Factors: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Possess Cornered Tradition and What THIS MEANS For All Of Us landscape.

But it didn’t need to be this way.

In Move Fast and Break Factors, Jonathan Taplin gives a succinct and effective history of how online life started to be shaped around the values from the entrepreneurs like Peter Thiel and Larry Web page who founded these all-powerful companies. Their unprecedented growth came at the weighty cost of tolerating piracy of books, music and film, while at exactly the same time marketing opaque business methods and subordinating the personal privacy of individual users to generate the surveillance advertising monoculture in which we have now live.

It’s the story of an enormous reallocation of revenue where $50 billion a year has moved from the makers and owners of content material to the monopoly systems. With this reallocation of cash comes a change in power. Google, Facebook and Amazon right now enjoy politics power on par with Big Essential oil and Big Pharma, which in part explains how such a tremendous shift in revenues from creators to platforms might have been accomplished and why it has truly gone unchallenged for such a long time.

And if you think that’s got nothing in connection with you, their following move is to come after your jobs.

Move Fast and Break Things is a contact to arms, to say that is more than enough is enough and to demand that people do everything in our power to develop a different future.